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Subject: Re: [xsl] outputting   to HTML (not so final answer) From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:12:04 +0000 |
Hi Aniceto, > using "<xsl:output method="html"/> +   combination" I can have > something like "<td> </td>" not "<td> </td>" as desired to > solve the netscape cell problem MSXML3 is serializing non-breaking space characters as native characters (an actual non-breaking space character) rather than using the HTML character entity reference ( ). You can force MSXML3 not to use the native character by telling it to serialize in an encoding which doesn't include the non-breaking space character, for example ASCII: <xsl:output encoding="US-ASCII" /> Unfortunately, MSXML3 does not use the HTML character entity reference ( ) even if it can't use the native character, but instead gives a character reference: <td> </td> That's as close as you're going to get with MSXML3. Other processors will use the character entity reference ( ) in these circumstances. But having tested in Netscape 4.74, whether you use a native character, a character entity reference or a character reference makes no difference - the table cell is rendered in exactly the same way. It's only when you look at the source of the result file that you might think that the native non-breaking space character was a normal space rather than a non-breaking space. > I can read in secction 2: "You can even declare nbsp in an internal > subset of your stylesheet if you want a friendlier representation of > the character" but I can't guess that it means It means that you can use a DOCTYPE declaration in your stylesheet to declare that the entity reference means the non-breaking space character: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp ' '> ]> And then in your stylesheet you can use as much as you want, to mean a non-breaking space character. However, this does not affect the way the non-breaking space character is serialized in the result document. Whether you use: <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> (where that 'space' is a non-breaking space) makes no difference to the XSLT processor. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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